Schlapp said fellow conservatives “were so distraught” that the Republican Party was “passive when [then-President] Obama was doing things they felt like were very questionable constitutionally and unconstitutional.” With Trump, they see the good and the bad. But Schlapp told me that what overrides it all is that “the man fights.”

Schlapp speaks with The Post’s Jonathan Capehart during a taping of the “Cape Up” podcast on March 1. (Carol Alderman/The Washington Post)

“Donald Trump is not going to be careful,” Schlapp said. “He is going to push through his agenda, and so they like the fact that he fights.” And Schlapp has an interesting theory about why the president goes “outside the zone” of appropriate political discourse. “A lot of Trump is a function of Obama,” he said.

Listen to the podcast to hear Schlapp explain why he invited and disinvited conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos to the Conservative Political Action Conference last month. And you gotta hear how Schlapp beat out his boss and another colleague to gain the affections of his best friend.